Winter Paralympic Games 2022

[hckošice 15,521]

42 minutes ago, uk12points said:

And it’s not even because the Russians aren’t there, they are beating the dominant athletes in their events like Oksana Masters and Marie Bochet. 
 

China’s Paralympic programme continues to impress even in sports they have very little pedigree in.

Daily training on site unlike others who have never been there before is a strong advantage, but anyway, it is clear they have put a lot of effort and resources to succeed at these games, just hope it will not be a one event episode like I was worrying about their men ice hockey "project"

[Orangehair43 285]

2 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Daily training on site unlike others who have never been there before is a strong advantage, but anyway, it is clear they have put a lot of effort and resources to succeed at these games, just hope it will not be a one event episode like I was worrying about their men ice hockey "project"

China win a lot at the Summer Games so you would expect they would want to continue winning a lot in 2026 and onwards.

[heywoodu 16,004]

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

Daily training on site unlike others who have never been there before is a strong advantage, but anyway, it is clear they have put a lot of effort and resources to succeed at these games, just hope it will not be a one event episode like I was worrying about their men ice hockey "project"

Although training on sites daily makes some difference, it's not like it puts you literal minutes ahead in a sport like cross-country skiing  

 

I do wonder where they opened this can of disabled athletes from all of a sudden  

 

Spoiler

It might also be a bit of a painful showing of the overall strength of the Paralympics, if a country can go from being nearly invisible to being the super power in not even four years...

 

[hckošice 15,521]

4th place after Day 2 but still a bit sour feeling of missed chances of at least 2 other safe medals today (2x DNF while being in 1st place after last intermediate) and another 2 possible yesterday (2x 4th places and 1x 5th place yesterday) ...

 

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Crazy to see skiers shedding layers or going without sleeves today after Olympians couldn’t have enough layers just two/three weeks ago.

[Olympian1010 8,230]

Happy to see the snowboard cross events finally contested in the heats format (was a time trial in 2014, and head-to-head in 2018). It will be interesting to compare the racing across the three editions.
 

A mix of rather uncompetitive opening heats and a couple of close finishes so far. 

[Olympian1010 8,230]

Brian McKeever  won his 14th gold medal today 

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She had to go to court for the right to compete (as her classification was cut and IPC original ruled she couldn’t compete in SB-LL2 against less impaired athletes), but now Cecile Hernandez  has a gold medal.

[hckošice 15,521]

11th Gold for Farkašová, her 2nd in Beijing 

[Illya 585]

Second gold for Oksana Shyshkova. Disqualification Russia and Belarus seriously helps her